SPONTANEOUS ABORTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spontaneous abortion mean? 

• SPONTANEOUS ABORTION (noun)
  The noun SPONTANEOUS ABORTION has 1 sense:

1. a natural loss of the products of conception

  Familiarity information: SPONTANEOUS ABORTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPONTANEOUS ABORTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A natural loss of the products of conception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

miscarriage; spontaneous abortion; stillbirth

Hypernyms ("spontaneous abortion" is a kind of...):

abortion (termination of pregnancy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spontaneous abortion"):

habitual abortion (repeated spontaneous abortion (often for no known reason))

imminent abortion; threatened abortion (the appearance of symptoms that signal the impending loss of the products of conception)

incomplete abortion; partial abortion (termination of pregnancy without expulsion of all of the products of conception)

 Context examples 

Some anticardiolipin antibodies prolong phospholipid dependent clotting while others are associated with spontaneous abortion.

(Anticardiolipin Antibody, NCI Thesaurus)

Congenital heart defects occur in 1% of live births and fetal heart malformations are implicated in many pregnancies that end in still-birth or spontaneous abortion.

(NFAT Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It is associated with thrombosis, spontaneous abortion, and complications during labor.

(Anticardiolipin IgG Antibody, NCI Thesaurus)